Sunday Selections

Again, no intro blurb, I wasn't sure I'd get these few photos done, I've been typing too much lately, but Val, on her blog, unbagging the cats, has shown her husband's collection of Coca Cola memorabilia. I told her about my few Coke items and she expressed an interest in seeing them, so here they are.

All three of them. 

first, my smallish metal tray. you can see the whitened parts where the original red got worn away, I used this for years for coffee and sugar canisters along with a couple of mugs and teaspoons. When I noticed the wear, I cleaned it up, gave it a single coat of clear gloss varnish and put it on display on the high shelf. This is about 12 inches or a bit less, by eight inches, or a bit less. I didn't think to measure it while balancing on the step-ladder.

second, my poster. the wide black edge is part of the poster, the buckling is because I had this glued on the corners only, to a piece from a corrugated cardboard box that once held a pedestal fan and over the years it began to sag, unnoticed by me until yesterday when I took it down from the same high shelf as the tray, to photograph it. I've now removed it from the cardboard, cleaned of the greasy cooking steam dust and will get it properly framed, perhaps with a thin red metallic frame.

third, my mirror which hangs on the kitchen wall above a rail which has coffee mugs hanging from hooks. This is 38cm wide, (15 inches), by 29cm high (11 1/2 inches), in near new condition, apart from a little dust, the gold-coloured frame has faded a  bit, but it has no scratches or cracks. I bought this when we first arrived back in Adelaide in 1986, for $5.99 and I've since seen some in secondhand shops for $20-$25, complete with cracks and scratches and frames that are coming apart at the corners. 

Moving on, who remembers Wagon Wheels biscuits?

They're available in minis now, packs of eight and recently released packs of eight individually wrapped wagon wheels in a box.

filled with jam and marshmallow, coated with chocolate, they're pretty yummy. But a bit tricky to eat, when you bite in, the chocolate cracks up and flies around or drops straight down inside your t-shirt where it immediately melts.

Anyway I decided cutting them open to result in two thinner biscuits, might make the eating a bit easier. It did, but....

How disappointing! The first one I cut open had only a thin ring of jam and a thin ring of marshmallow,

the second one, still a thin ring of jam, but a better layer of marshmallow. Every biscuit since then (yes I ate the whole packet) had a decent layer of marshmallow. 

I remember the original Wagon Wheels, larger in size and still available, from when I was a child and the jam layer covered the biscuit completely, ditto the marshmallow, so I feel I'm being gypped on the jam. On the other hand I'm happy these are still available.

Finally, who remembers the old rhyme "there was a little girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead"?

That's me>>

when I wash my hair I comb it straight back and clip the fringe (bangs) in place so it dries straight, but there is always a bit that misses the clip and curls forward. It isn't all that curly, but if I just towel dry the hair and leave it all loose it goes nuts and does its own version of Shirley Temple curls, which is fine in winter because it feels warmer that way, but in summer heat straighter hair feels thinner therefore cooler.

Of course the bottom half, below the ears is still doing its curly, almost ringlet thing.

these fall into waves once I run a comb through the dry hair.